Interviews with Local Leaders

Organizational growth can be based on a number of different strategies, including growing capacity, expanding or changing customer base, or offering new or upgraded products or services. Further, strategies may be executed using different tools, including organic or acquisition based growth. Regardless of strategy, there are common lessons learned...

This month we sat down with Ajay Batish, CEO of Incapsulate, whose corporate culture is centered around innovation. Check out this interview below! Helios HR: What’s your biggest challenge today and how are you overcoming it? Ajay Batish: It is not a new challenge, but it’s the most important one...

*** Guest post authored by Amit Puri, President and CEO of Ingenicomm, Inc.*** “Why be a great place to work?” I’m often asked why I care so much about making Ingenicomm an amazing place to work. If the company is quantitatively successful – winning new contracts, increasing revenue and profits,...

When did you first know you wanted to be in the HR Field? Connie: While working in New York City, I earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from NYU. I had an opportunity to speak with a classmate one evening who, like me, was also working while getting her...

Helios HR: HR Girlfriends is a professional and social networking organization for female HR professionals in Washington, D.C. What inspired you to create this group? Saná: “I have been an HR practitioner for about half of my adult mature working career and one of the things that I quickly...

This month we interviewed Catherine Meloy, CEO of Goodwill of Greater Washington. Catherine and her team at Goodwill won an Apollo Award this year in the nonprofit category, Hercules for having outstanding employee engagement initiatives. Catherine has many years of leadership experience and shares advice on what it takes to be...

Entrepreneur, Joe Mancuso is a successful CEO to four organizations. You read that correctly—FOUR! In this interview, we asked Joe how he gets his incredible motivation. Attributing his motivation to always being a problem-solver, Joe shares how in fact, he was simply trying to solve a problem when he...

This month we interviewed Joe Martore, CEO of CALIBRE Systems. As they celebrate their 25th year of operations, Joe shares the success of CALIBRE is directly related to their corporate employee-ownership culture which focuses on their values, their customers and taking care of their employees. Read more about their...

It had not yet been 24 hours since the acquisition of Forgentum, Inc and Jeff Handy of Fulcrum IT, spent his morning with us discussing his passion for employee engagement. What we found to be most impactful was Jeff's emphasis on the importance of having an employee engagement plan,...

When Kathy Albarado, President and CEO, spoke to Sid one afternoon she found him to speak with passion about his convictions with recurring themes of always operating with intention, applying a constant focus, and making an impact to those around him

This month, Helios interviewed our partner Alan Meltzer, CEO of The Meltzer Group, a leading benefits broker based in Bethesda. While The Meltzer Group is known for their integrity and hard work, they are equally recognized for their philanthropy. Learn how they have instituted an Employee Giving Fund and...

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with our founder, President, and CEO of Helios HR, Kathy Albarado to pick her brain on leadership. As Kathy’s passion is working with enlightened leaders to build a culture that attracts, retains and engages exceptional people, I wanted to find out...

This month we interviewed, Joe Mechlinski, CEO and co-founder of entreQuest and New York Times Bestselling Author of Grow Regardless: Of Your Business's Size, Your Industry or the Economy…and Despite the Government! We thought during this time of economic hardship, Joe might have ideas on how we can continue...

Read the news lately? You’ve probably heard about IntelliDyne’s new leadership or one of the several awards they’ve recently received. This month Senior Vice President, Shirl Jenkins, shares why their programs are receiving tons of recognition as an outstanding workplace environment, healthiest employer, and how they’ve become successful leaders...

Earlier this summer Excella Consulting was recognized at the Apollo Awards for their incredible commitment to community service, winning the Harmonia Award. We had the opportunity to talk to Co-Founder and Partner, Burton White who shared just exactly how his team developed their award winning, high-impact community investment program,...